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Summary: highly recommended
Review: So far I've enjoyed all of Burkes novels. It's like his books just burst at the seams with energy.
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Summary: Sonny Boy come back!
Review: This is my first James Lee Burke book and to be honest, I loved it. It was so incredibly sad though. Sonny Boy was my favorite character and once I put the face of Eric Stoltz on him, he became even more alive. I've read the book three times now and each time the book becomes better...
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Summary: One of the only "ok" books by James Lee Burke
Review: This is one of the only books in this series I was not crazy about. Its not bad, but just not great. But don't get me wrong this is a great series.
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Summary: Desperately Sentimental, Strains Credibility
Review: Well, once again, poor James Lee Burke is back, with his patented mix of stale Sixties cliches and nauseating sentimentality about the glories of the Antebellum South. Each book in the series is like a cross between EASY RIDER and GONE WITH THE WIND, with all the phoniest elements of each. Pseudo-liberal good ole boy Dave Robicheaux gets all bent out of shape when Eye-talian mobsters and no-account Yankees from the CIA start pushing around local blacks and stealing their humble little cabins for some nefarious Northern scheme. Poor Dave gets all misty just thinking about the saintly Robert E. Lee and his heroes in homespun gray. Bashing the mob and the CIA is the only way he can keep his illusions intact. But when the ghost of General Lee appears in drag, warning Dave to stop lying to himself about the stupidity and corruption of his own ancestors, it looks as though another AA meeting is all that stands between a corrupt, booze-sodden phony and his inevitable moment of truth. This books reads like George Wallace wrote it after dropping acid and locking himself in a room with Joan Baez for two days.
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